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« on: August 31, 2011, 09:16:31 am »
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I bought my very first Arduino Uno today with my first project in mind. If the light in a room falls below, lets say... 10 LUX, it should activate the LEDs. How would i go about doing this. I have the photo sensor and the LEDs. I have some Idea, i just dont know how to call out the photo sensor in the code and all that.


Many thanks, Mitch.
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« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2011, 09:29:36 am »
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There are many different kinds of photo sensor - do you have a link to the datasheet for the one you are using?
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« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2011, 11:50:03 am »
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Quote from: MarkT on August 31, 2011, 09:29:36 am
There are many different kinds of photo sensor - do you have a link to the datasheet for the one you are using?

Its this one http://www.adafruit.com/products/161
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« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2011, 05:13:23 pm »
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There is a pretty extensive Photocell tutorial link on that same product page.  Probably far more detailed we could give you in a forum post. 

Try working through that tutorial and ask questions based on that work.
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« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2011, 05:29:56 pm »
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Quote from: James C4S on August 31, 2011, 05:13:23 pm
There is a pretty extensive Photocell tutorial link on that same product page.  Probably far more detailed we could give you in a forum post. 

Try working through that tutorial and ask questions based on that work.
ok thanks.
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